He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award. Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Discover what the planet's climate and environment were like and how they evolved. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. 1 volume : 28 cm 'Age of Dinosaurs is a great first book about dinosaurs and the world in which they lived.Travel to prehistoric lagoons and ancient forests and explore life on Earth millions of years ago. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.īorn in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. Can you imagine being able to draw like that? When I try to draw the dinosaurs from this book, they end up looking like beans with hats.Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. I also like that it has lots of drawings, all done by hand. “I like that it puts a lot of similar species on the same page, so it’s easy to see their differences. Careful readers will notice some out-of-date facts and gaps in the species list in this fifteen-year-0ld book, but it still provides a nice overview of the various dinosaurs paleontologists knew about when the book was published in 2003. This is an older reference book on dinosaurs, and in places it shows its age. The book provides just enough information to keep her intrigued, and not enough to be overwhelming. The Ten-Year-Old loves this format, because it makes it easy for her to compare several similar species and identify their differences. Rex and the Triceratops, receive a two-page spread. Most species just get a paragraph or two summarizing their major features, but a few of the more famous ones, such as the T. John Malam and Steve Parker’s encyclopedia presents brief blurbs on hundreds of different dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, grouped by type.
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